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Ayn Rand disciple teaching Citadel cadets

This video, brought to my attention by Nancy Mace Jackson on Twitter, is interesting on a couple of levels. First, it’s apparently a course on conservative theory taught by Mallory Factor, who’s been in the news again recently.

Second, the guest speaker appearing before the class is Yaron Brook, director of the Ayn Rand Institute. Interesting guy. He’s introduced as having served in Israeli Intelligence. He has an accent I can’t quite place — he sounds vaguely like former USC President John Palms.

The ideas he’s talking about could hardly be more timely than now, when various strains of libertarianism, from Ron Paul to the Tea Party, are striving to seize control of the Republican Party.

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You might find the syllabus for this course interesting. It’s an impressive lineup of speakers. Kathryn Fenner may note that it’s sort of like the recent lineup of speakers at our Rotary, only a bit more academically highbrow:

Where’s the class on how to bend over and kiss Rush Limbaugh’s big, fat pimpled ass. For some inexplicable reason this crazy lunatic has taken control of the conservative movement. All Mitt Romney could do was say his remarks about Ms. Fluke were “inappropriate”. Speaker Boehner had a similar, bland rebuke of the thrice divorced, oxycotin junkie. Why don’t they just come out give Limbaugh the harsh tongue lashing he so richly deserves. The good news this whole contraception debacle is costing the GOP women voters in droves. Hopefully the men will catch on soon as well to the disaster that conservatism has become.

He does a good job or representing it, because it’s arguably true that Bill Gates benefited the world more, through his products, when he was making his billions than he is now that he’s giving much of it away. Arguably.

But it breaks down when he tries to maintain that anti-smoking laws are a bad idea.

Those of us who are sickened (immediately, not in the long term) simply had very few places we could go out before the local smoking ban. Many businesses wanted to go smokeless, but were afraid to do so unless they knew their competitors had to do the same. It was a situation in which individual choices by business owners didn’t work to produce smoke-free businesses in anything like the proportion of the population that doesn’t smoke, and doesn’t want to breathe it. Non-smokers who wanted to go out just had to put up with it. Now they don’t have to, in Columbia…

The whole anti-smoking movement was driven by liberal culture warriors who saw the tyranny to non-smokers and especially those with respiratory ailments in a world that catored to the “needs” of a few rude and addicted smokers. It took 50 years but the public world is largely free of the smoking menace. And no one, not even the smokers, is worse off for it. Here is a case where libertarians were clearly wrong. Will they ever admit it?

It is a well known fact that Limbaugh was declared ineligible for the draft because of some type of some type of cyst condition on his backside. His father had the same condition but served in the military during WW II.

“It is a well known fact that Limbaugh was declared ineligible for the draft because of some type of some type of cyst condition on his backside. His father had the same condition but served in the military during WW II.”…bud

Maybe in an alternate universe where an interest in the complexion of another person’s ass would this irrelevant fact become public knowledge and well known.

I think Kathryn has the right idea…”Well, he does show his ass a lot, so…”

“pilonidal cyst”—-Must be something in the air today. Now that I have a bit of useless information, may as well have fun with it.

Could the fact that his butt history of “pilonidal cysts” which comes very close to “piling on” have something to do with a connection from his brain to his ass and when he experiences an outbreak he has a tendency to speak out of his lower region when he should be talking out of the upper?

There you have it, the answer to the riddle of why Rush is the way he is. He has a cyst on his ass and when it is flares up and painful, the discomfort makes him “pile on” and direct his anger at anyone in front of him at the time.